Ghanaian Woman’s Attempt To Smuggle Heroin Into The US Hidden In Dried Fish Lands Her A 27 Month Jail Sentence

A 64 year old Ghanaian woman, Rose Amanor, has been sentenced to twenty seven months in prison by a New York City court, convicted for attempting to smuggle drugs into the USA.
Amanor was arrested in February last year, when she was searched at New York’s JFK after disembarking on a flight from Amsterdam.
The search revealed she was travelling with three kilograms of cocaine, hidden within a haul of dry fish, the New York Daily News reported.
In court, Rose Amanor said her son duped her into carrying the bag into the city, but the judge was not buying it, saying she had told one too many ‘fishy’ stories.
“I find it totally incredible that Mrs. Amanor didn’t know what it was that she was doing,” trial Judge Eric Vitaliano said.
“It certainly was a disrespect for the law, sitting in this courtroom and spinning this incredible tale under oath.”
The defendant’s lawyers wanted her to be let go with time served- citing her old age and poor health- she has been held since being arrested last February, but the judge was having none of it. The twenty seven months he sentenced her to was well short of the 6 1/2 years sought by the prosecution though.
In court, Amanor, who could almost certainly speak English, said she couldn’t, and requested a Twi translator. This was despite, as the Daily News put it: ‘that English is the national language of Ghana, and when she was arrested she was carrying two Bibles, a dietary nutrition plan, and other documents written in English, and had received numerous emails from her son written in English.’
This woman be hardcore. She would be deported after serving her sentence.